"You don't learn to fly if you're not prepared to crash"

“Generally speaking, the more money that's involved in anything, the more people are expecting and hoping that it's not going to fail.”

“when you change what you believe, you change what you do...”

Source : Spencer Johnson (1998). “Who Moved My Cheese?: An A-Mazing Way to Deal with Change in Your Work and in Your Life”, p.32, Penguin

“She fell asleep, and it was a sleep as thin as the night clouds, dotted with dreams that came and went like the stars.”

“Yet humanitarianism is not a purely Christian movement any more than it is a purely humanist one”

“We know that Las Vegas is junk, but at the same time I think that exactly the same process and ultimately also, perhaps the same logic, attaches itself to or underlies our masterpieces. We live in an amazing era when in spite of an absence of masters there is an explosion of masterpieces.”

“Boys, boys, boys. Boys buy the little spinny tops, they but the action figures, girls buy princesses, we're not selling princesses.”

Source : "Blood-Boiler of the Day: TV Show Canceled for Having Too Many Smart, Interesting Girl Characters" by Inkoo Kang, www.indiewire.com. December 19, 2013.

“Solitude offers a lot that being coupled or being in a group does not. It helps us learn what we are capable of.”

“Communism is an aspiration, an aspiration is an ideal, a dream, a longing of something that would be perfect, but hard to build because it has to clash with human nature and against the egotism of humans and the egotism of the elites which usually try to guarantee their own interests above those of their nations and of their own people. But they are the ones that prevail because they have the economic power, the political power and the military power.”